CVE-2026-72330: net/tls: Consume empty data records in tls_sw_read_sock()

Published Aug 15, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/tls: Consume empty data records in tlsswreadsock()

A peer may send a zero-length TLS applicationdata record; TLS 1.3 explicitly permits these as a traffic-analysis countermeasure (RFC 8446, Section 5.1). After decryption such a record has fulllen == 0. tlsswreadsock() hands it to the readactor, which has no payload to consume and returns zero. The loop treats a zero return as backpressure (used <= 0), requeues the skb at the head of rxlist, and stops. rxlist is serviced head-first on the next call, so the empty record is dequeued, fails the same way, and is requeued again; every later record on the connection is blocked behind it.

tlsswrecvmsg() does not stall on this: a zero-length data record copies nothing and falls through to consumeskb(). Mirror that in the readsock() path by recognizing an empty data record before the actor runs, consuming it, and continuing.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Aug 15, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:55 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:55 AM
Description
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